re: #151 Weaselone

Don’t play that game. The Democrats aren’t running against the white working class. The whole framing of that tweet was BS.

The problem is that WWC being the largest demographic is a common misconception that Bernie himself has espoused multiple times.

Bernie Sanders explicitly tried to construct his campaign around “White working-class people.” That’s why he lost. pic.twitter.com/UuTZyK4efh

— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 5, 2016

And this NPR interview from Nov 2014 where he dismissed minority voting block concerns as “not important.” pic.twitter.com/avYWhdVgOR

— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) May 9, 2016

This persistent framing in our politics that paints the white working class as either the largest or the most dispassionate, ideologically neutral and purely economically motivated voting block is utter garbage.